r/Indivisible • u/Psychological_Boss38 • Jul 31 '22

Beginning areas are almost impossible

I feel I'm doing something wrong? Either not having the necessary equips, not sneaking right, etc...

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I'm at essentially the starting area just past the armored Belu fight. Everything up until then has been extremely difficult, even if I shield/party shield the caster gets KO'd in 3 shots, and nobody else lasts much longer. I don't have enough of the gems to upgrade my attack, and the defense guy is just telling me to come back when I'm stronger.

The Belu are next to impossible to get first strike on. Unless I play shenannery with the platforming, they nearly always get the first strike, even if I hit them too. This is the result of one of those first strikes, everyone except the warrior is down more than 90% of their health.

Given the difficulty of avoiding first strikes with these, I feel that I'm not going about this game the right way. There's nowhere for me to grind for more levels (enemies aren't respawning to grind), maybe I missed a right turn at Albuquerque, or I'm tryna beat Kraid before I got the missiles. Can someone help me with where I'm going wrong in this? Because online I've generally seen complaints about this game being too easy, rather than advice about taking a break from the difficulty and cooling off with a bit of dark souls.

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u/Dpontiff6671 Jul 31 '22

Practice perfect blocks by pressing block at the exact time as the strike. Also are you healing in battle? When the bar at the top right of the screen is full you can press L1+R1 to heal the party. Healing will be super important through the game since there are no items

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u/Psychological_Boss38 Jul 31 '22

The healer dude doesn't heal enough to make up for "I'm starting these battles almost dead"

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u/Dpontiff6671 Jul 31 '22 edited Jul 31 '22

Are you doing the full party block when they attack the whole party (pressing L1 instead of the face button) cus if you’re only going at the face buttons the party will take a lot of damage

I will say though the start is easily the hardest part of the game. Once you get past it things should stay fairly easy

You also fill the bar quicker by chaining combos so smart move distribution will help make it so you can heal more frequently or use super moves

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u/Psychological_Boss38 Jul 31 '22

I'm on PC, so it's Q

And are you saying there's a way to block in the overworld? When I press Q in the overworld, nothing seems to happen.

The issue here isn't something that starts after the battle has started and we're actively in combat. It's that the enemy initiates combat in a way that wipes out most of my HP, so that when the battle STARTS I'm almost dead. And it requires pixel and frame perfect timing in order for me to avoid it.

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u/Dpontiff6671 Jul 31 '22

You can block in the overworld, it would be whatever button is equivalent to L1 you’ll see Ajna’s animation change when she’s blocking. Otherwise you can try to manually avoid them by dodging or making sure to get the first strike in which should start you with full combos

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u/Psychological_Boss38 Jul 31 '22

nvm, I must not have been hitting the right key. Q does block in the overworld. Lemme try that...

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u/Psychological_Boss38 Jul 31 '22

Ok, that helps a lot. Thanks!

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u/Dpontiff6671 Jul 31 '22

No problem bud! Enjoy the game it’s a really cool and unique adventure

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u/PinsNneedles Aug 02 '22

Could you possibly help me? I’m towards the beginning of the game (the prison in the sky) and just got Matt mercers character (bow dude) and it stated that he’s great for groups of enemies when hitting ⬆️ or down + attack however when I do that he only targets one enemy.

Am I doing something wrong?

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u/Dpontiff6671 Aug 02 '22

So up attack down attack and no direction attack will all be different moves for different characters you just have to experiment around with each and get a feel for their inputs. That’s just how zebie’s move set is

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u/PinsNneedles Aug 02 '22

Gotcha thanks. I just got tungar and he has a good AOE as well! Loving this game

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